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Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

The study of minute organisms, or microbes, as the bacteria. -- Mi`cro*bi`o*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Mi`cro*bi*ol"o*gist (#), n.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton.

The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. Sir T. Browne.

The act of mobilizing.

To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy. Virchow.

Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis.

An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.

Same as Columbic.

Same as Columbite.

A later name of columbium. See Columbium.

Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper, lead peroxide, etc. They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.

Of or pertaining to the nobility. Fitzed. Hall.

To make noble; to nobiliate. [Obs.]

To make noble; to ennoble; to exalt. [Obs.]

The act of making noble. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

nd or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to control, And named their pride nobility of soul. Dryden.

Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaërobiotic.

Capable of living without light; as, nonphotobiotic plant cells, or cells which habitually live in darkness.